Site Reliability Engineer (SRE/ DevOps) - Engineering Productivity

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. They leverage advancements in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and software-defined networking to provide competitive solutions. The company values diversity and inclusivity and has received awards for Best Engineering Team, Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work-Life Balance.

Essential Skills:

• At least BSc Computer Science or Engineering + 3 years’ experience, MS Computer Science or Engineering + 3 years’ experience, or equivalent work experience.
• Knowledge of one or more of Go, Python, shell scripting to implement medium complexity automation workflows.
• Knowledge of Linux (or UNIX) from administration and debugging perspective.
• Hands-on experience operating software systems (infrastructure, complex applications) at scale.
• Experience in server provisioning, especially from storage and networking perspective.
• Strong problem solving and software troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code.

Desired Skills:

• Experience managing databases such as mariadb, postgres, mongodb.
• Experience with docker and virtualization technologies like kvm, qemu, kata-containers.
• Experience managing monitoring stack including Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, InfluxDB, Grafana, Thanos.
• Experience managing ElasticSearch clusters.
• Experience managing Artifactory, docker registry.
• Experience managing CI/CD systems like ArgoCD, Spinnaker.
• Experience managing version control systems like Perforce, Gerrit.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks like Ansible.
• Experience managing large Java applications.
• Experience in storage infrastructure management such as NAS, SAN, Ceph.

• Build, deploy safely and incrementally and operate critical production systems focusing on scalability, reliability, observability, performance, and security.
• Monitor, support and enhance developer experience across services.
• Build automation to remove toil and efficiently operate production systems.
• Proactively monitor, respond to, and enhance alerts and set up automated alert handling.
• Create and maintain incident response runbooks.
• Triage platform/infrastructural issues and assist Arista software engineers in their triages; engage with 3rd party vendor support.
• Write postmortem documents and build solutions to prevent incident recurrence.
• Plan and communicate maintenance windows on production systems.
• Work with product development teams to identify infrastructural bottlenecks and design and implement solutions.
• Survey and adopt best practices around infrastructure/platform to maintain secure, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems.
• Study design and implementation details of OSS systems for better triage and fix resolution.